Dr Sam Heard

Chief Executive Officer and Clinical Director, Ocean Informatics

Director openEHR Foundation

Dr. Sam Heard (MBBS, MRCGP, FRACGP, FACHI) is a general practitioner and has been a Senior Lecturer in General Practice, first with London University and until 2002 with Flinders University. He developed a GP clinical system in London in the mid 80's, which is still in use and was a co-author of the original Good European Health Record Project funded by the European Commission.

Sam has written and presented widely on electronic health records and was the principal author of the background document for the Australian EHR Taskforce. He has been the lead on all the Australian RACGP funded GeHR projects and is developing the clinical approach to archetypes. He is co-chair of the EHR SIG of HL7 International and Chair of the Standards Australia EHR working group. He also has a strong educational background in primary care and is presently the Chair of the National Education Committee of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.